The villain of The Ruins is beautiful, clever and seductive and spends the entire story exposed on a sunny Cancun hillside. It's a plant. The movie opening April 11 and based on the novel by Scott B. Smith, who also wrote the screenplay chronicles the experiences of young tourists who find themselves isolated at an archaeological dig in a Mexican jungle.

In September, a judge in York County, Pennsylvania ruled that ministers who do not have a "regularly established church or congregation" cannot perform marriages under state law. If the York precedent holds in Pennsylvania's 66 other counties, as some officials think it should, it could spawn hundreds of legal and domestic disputes, experts say.

In the midst of his rambling journey, starting at 22, Chris McCandless dubbed himself "Alexander Supertramp." But the restless soul at the center of Into the Wild is as much a descendant of Henry David Thoreau as he is a modern hobo.